FORGOTTEN INDUSTRIES @forgotten-industry.bsky.social An archive & lab journal exploring what happens to the things we leave behind.
Old machines. Abandoned projects. Recovered selves.
Tony Beall · Where Sacred Fires Burn @ajbeall.bsky.social Historian of religions, using archival and ethnographic methods. A decade in Namibia on ritual, memory, and the dead who orient the living. I write Where Sacred Fires Burn; subscriptions support the Etanga Development Foundation. ajbeall.substack.com
Flavia De Nicola, PhD @flaviadenicola.substack.com 🔎 Early Modern art historian from Rome, PhD, and professor working on Provenance Research in dialogue with Art History and Museology.
📝 https://flaviadenicola.substack.com/
🗃️ flaviadenicola.com/provenance-research
✉️ provenance[at]flaviadenicola[dot]com
Bárbara Fernández-Melleda @babala852.bsky.social Latinamericanist in Hong Kong. Literature scholar.
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Austin Goodwin Andrews @austin-glock.bsky.social late antique religion + material culture • from Hamlet, North Carolina • he/him
Freedom United @freedomunitedhq.bsky.social Freedom United is a global anti-slavery community, using our collective power to demand change. Let’s end modern slavery together!
🌐 freedomunited.org
Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org The latest research in Archaeology from @universitypress.cambridge.org
cambridge.org/archaeology
Letícia Haertel @lmhaertel.bsky.social 🦕 Dinosaur Lawyer | #UbirajaraBelongsToBR ✅ #IrritatorBelongsToBR 🔜
🇺🇳 International Law & History | Cultural Heritage | Int'l Organizations
📚 Incoming PhD (IHEID) | LL.M. (LMU) | M.A. History (CPDOC) | B.A. (USP)
[opinions=my own]
Geschichte wird gemacht @geschichtewird.bsky.social Netzwerk für faire Arbeitsbedingungen in Museen und Gedenkstätten.
Große Bedeutung - schlechte Bedingungen: Mitarbeiter*innen von Gedenkstätten und Museen fordern faire Entlohnung, soziale Absicherung, mehr Mitbestimmung!
www.geschichte-wird-gemacht.org
Charlie Clark @charliethewollie.bsky.social UoE PhD Candidate at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies ✡️✝️☪️
Currently obsessed with φυλακτήρια, קמעין, late-antique Judaism/general religious fun times and museum studies.
Big fan of languages, music, escape rooms, and unnecessarily large shoes
Paul Ryer @paulryer.bsky.social Ethnographer of Cuba and its diasporas, based at the School for Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, NM. Host of "In Context with SAR" podcast.
Francesco Della Costa @f-dellacosta.bsky.social Dad, anthropologist at unimib and a couple more things. Researching on ritual, food, and environment.
David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad.
Every billionaire is a policy failure.
davidhprice.com
Déun Galmazán @dgalaviz.bsky.social Habitante de Abya Yala-Iberoamérica. Hablante nativo de español e inglés; también hablante de francés. Continuando con el aprendizaje del alemán y el ruso. Estudiante de chino y latín. El hebreo lo he olvidado por completo y no lo volveré a estudiar.
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Helpify @helpify.bsky.social 🐾 Every tail deserves a second chance.
At our foundation, we rescue, feed, heal, and protect dogs who’ve been forgotten giving them the love and life they deserve. 💛
Join us in changing their world, one paw at a time. 🐶
🐾 Rescue. Love. Transform. Repeat.
Eriko Yamasaki @eriko-yam.bsky.social Social and cultural anthropologist working on biocultural diversity, food practices and indigenous languages in Latin America, currently working @Uni Marburg
Sarah Hale @sarahahale.bsky.social Higher Education Ph.D Student, First-Gen College Student, McNair Scholar
https://linktr.ee/sahale2123
Tomásï @necalli24.bsky.social PhD | Hemispheric Indigenous Studies | keeper of the Son | Adjerente de la Sexta | ji ánchikuarhisïnga sési jakuá iretaechaeri
Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social Organize. Fight. Liberate. Decolonial Conference, March 27-28, Online & April 6-7, 2025, LA
Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social Anthropology for Radical Optimism https://allegralaboratory.net/
Matt Berkley @mattberkley.bsky.social Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Heather Coyne @hlcoyne.bsky.social she/her • fan of early punk, cartoons of round animals, salted butter, mystery books, and humor that doesn’t punch down
Allyson Healey @arthistory4all.bsky.social They/she; GLAM worker by day and creator of the Art History for All podcast by night; views are my own
Berman Archive at Stanford @bermanarchive.bsky.social The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. We’re the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life.
Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/
Documensch Daily: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/documensch
Lars Müller @larsmueller.bsky.social Historian
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Karl Clemens Kübler @irnbrubeck.bsky.social BS, CH
Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social Scholar, late antiquity nerd, professor, and author of Gender Violence in Late Antiquity https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover and Bishops in Flight https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bishops-in-flight/paper 
Rachel Elise Greiner @regreiner.bsky.social PhD Student at UNC Chapel Hill studying Jewish food and learning Yiddish!
Vivian Scheinsohn @arqueoscheinsohn.bsky.social Archaeologist in Patagonia, Argentina. Full professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires/ Researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - CONICET. Hunter-gatherers, landscape archaeology. Born and raised in Buenos Aires
Dean Booth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social Artist, Philosopher, History addict, Social Justice Worrier
#BLM 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social museum work • KU PhD student • WWI history and Interwar diplomacy • mil doctrine advocate • retired pilot • adventuress • rescue dog mom • cocktail drinker
Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear, fashion. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor ar Endeavour, freelance writer. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Jakob Wigand @jawi.bsky.social PhD candidate @ uhh || colonial provenance research x history of science x collection history || he/him
Constance Jame @constancejame.bsky.social Art historian, Museologist, Provenance researcher | Islamic Art, History of Collection, Translocation of Objects | PhD @Uni-Heidelberg
Granarchy @grandana.bsky.social Until the phrase "Human rights" applies to all humans, I am not quitting !
Stuck in the Sar-chasm with the 'Tism schism
Dissing the lexia, and the praxia.
Jaqueline of many trades, mistress of none.
Oh, and unsolicited DM is instant block. 
@provenance-updates.bsky.social @provenance-updates.bsky.social News, resources, and discussions on provenance research.
Neuigkeiten, Ressourcen und Diskussionen zur Provenienzforschung.
Anna Dow @aedbrla.bsky.social PhD in history, Lawyer, Egyptomaniac, LSU graduate student studying the reception of Egyptian art in Europe, and LSU football fan. Also fan of Hoyas and Pelicans basketball.
Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social Antiquities crime researcher, science communicator, journalist, feminist, nerd. This is a private account. I repost anything that catches my attention: cats, AI slop hate, politics, Star Trek, cats, academia, archaeology, cats, and other things. Also cats.
Luna Silvestri @luvestri.bsky.social Heritage practitioner, Provenance researcher
@ecoledulouvre.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
@museeguimet.bsky.social 
Maria Silina @mariasln.bsky.social Currently, I am involved in a collaborative project on restitution requests and irregular displacements and alienations of museum collections in the USSR. Montreal, 🇨🇦. They/them 🏳️⚧️
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
Zoe Ross @zoelogy.bsky.social 
Scampylama @scampylama.bsky.social historian | curator of education | book reviewer for iz3w | reggae and dancehall academic | accessibility | museum | independent radio host | image by Helena Hernández
Julia Hamilton @julia-hamilton.bsky.social 📚 Lecturer at Macquarie University
📍 Dharug Ngura
Nathan Tye, PhD @hobohistory.bsky.social Historian at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. Studies hobos, transient labor, and literary history.
Provenance Lab @provenancelab.bsky.social
Toward #ComputationalProvenance.
We are the Provenance Lab @leuphana.bsky.social.
Find out more about the Lab: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/provenance-lab.html- S Yacine C @sissinouc.bsky.social phd student in sociology @ princeton
Helen Shiner @sculptarch.bsky.social Art historian. Provenance researcher. Modernist sculpture. Catalogue raisonné of works of sculptor/printmaker, Moissey Kogan (1879-1943), Bessarabian (Moldovan), École de Paris, d. Auschwitz
France
https://linktr.ee/moisseykogancr
Lynley McAlpine @lynleymcalpine.bsky.social Provenance researcher and Romanist in Texas
Bárbara Romero Ferrón @barbararomerof.bsky.social Daughter of Pepi and José Manuel | Computational Provenance and Exhibitions Researcher at the Provenance Lab and iArtHisLab | Prev. Getty, CulturePlex | Andalucía
Catherine Hickley @catherinehickley.bsky.social Editor for museums & heritage at The Art Newspaper. Arts writer, often for The New York Times. Author of The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and his Secret Legacy. Berlinerin.
Laura Pipolo @laurapipolo.bsky.social Campaigner - Community organizer - Researcher
Decoloniality - Indigenous Resistances - Social & Environmental Justice
Deverso
Undisciplined Environments
Until Decolonization, Liberation & Land Back
https://linktr.ee/laurapipoloterzani
weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social old, white, female, retired.
sitting with Black knowledges.
"there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." (l. cohen)
" saying no with chest" (phoebe boswell)
" das ganze ist das unwahre."(adorno)
"europe is rotten to the core."(césaire)
Provenienzforschung am OFP @ofpprojekt.bsky.social Das OFP-Projekt im Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchiv https://t.co/dNTnTwMR5L
Andrea García González @andreanorai.bsky.social Escribo, bailo, trepo paredes a ratos
'Calla y Olvida' (@katakrak-lib.bsky.social)
Exploradora de memorias📍Colombia; EH; NI
#EscritorasPeligrosas
Don Millar @donmillar.bsky.social Filmmaker focused on art and cultural heritage. Check out http://lootfilm.com to learn about our documentary on the looting of Cambodia. Instagram: @newtheorypictures
Elaine McIlwraith @elainemcilwraith.bsky.social Sociocultural Anthro | dis/connections of memory/history - heritage - citizenship - borders & boundaries - fascism | she/her | Reskeets ≠ Endorsement | views = my own
FID Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie | EVIFA @fid-ska.bsky.social Fachinformationsdienst SKA an der @humboldtuni.bsky.social und dem Forschungsdatenzentrum Qualiservice @unibremen.bsky.social.
Gefördert von @dfg.de
Fachportal Ethnologie: www.evifa.de
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fid-ska
Scott Marx - Big X Studio @bigxstudio.bsky.social Historian, educator, award winning photographer.
Rambles on about old books, Venice, and the coast of Maine.
Dr Natali Pearson @sea-greeny.bsky.social ocean + heritage + Southeast Asia
living on Gadigal land
DECRA Fellow 2025-2027 + Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney | President, Indonesia Council | Councillor, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology | author #BelitungBook
Marco Jalla @mjalla.bsky.social PhD in Art History | French Literature Teacher | Amateur Photographer | Passionate about storytelling through words and images.
Sandro Simon @sandrobsimon.bsky.social Multimodal Anthropologist. 🐚 Multispecies Moral Economies in Watery & Dry Ecologies (Senegal, mainly). @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social & @anthrodelta. 🦪
'Retweets' = Citations. twitter.com/SandroBSimon & https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandro-Simon
Simone Pfeifer @simonepfeifer.bsky.social visual, digital, and media anthropology, (post)migration and religious-political contexts, #criticalanthropology @GoetheUniversity Frankfurt & Global South Studies Center @unicologne
www.simone-pfeifer.de
Photography: Jana Bauch//University of Cologne
Martin Nadarzinski @martinnadarzinski.bsky.social PhD, (Museums-)Ethnologe, Fokus auf ethnografische Sammlungen und ihre (post-)koloniale Geschichte. Irgendwo zwischen Depot, Schreibtisch und Spielplatz.
Cultural anthropologist. Focus: Ethnografic Collections & their (post-)colonial history.
Dad; he/him.
DGSKA @dgska.bsky.social https://www.dgska.de/en/
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
EN - German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA)
Eloise Stockton @siobhanmary.bsky.social Education & Liberation.
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Carin Alejandria @carinalejandria.bsky.social Health and Disaster Anthropologist. Assistant Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Global Fellow at Brown University CHRHS. Leading a study on urban flood governance in Southeast Asia 🇧🇳🇮🇩🇲🇾🇵🇭
Profile: carinalejandria.com
Costanza Musu @costanzamusu.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. My current research focuses on the fight against the illicit trafficking of antiquities looted from conflict areas in the Middle East.
LolesBE @lolesbe.eurosky.social Translator and linguist, I like controlled vocabularies.
I work with museums and collections.
Berlin (Germany)
Jacqueline Knörr @jacqueline-knoerr.bsky.social Anthropologist, Author, Professor... more to come
Sofia Melendez Ron, M.Ed., M.A. @sofia-melendez.bsky.social They/she elle/ella • Queering, Resisting, Dancing • Clinical psyc PhD student • Critical pedagogy • Relational ethics • Chronic pain & disability • Trans Studies #VanierCanada Scholar 🇲🇽 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️
little my @genderqueef.bsky.social archivist, hot dog enjoyer
Roman Urbanowicz @romanurbr.bsky.social PhD student in Anthropology, University of Helsinki
@mpihlimpidi.bsky.social @mpihlimpidi.bsky.social Archaeologist ⛏️ | Art crime researcher 🎓 | GR
Samer ABDEL GHAFOUR @samerabdelghafour.bsky.social Founder ArchaeologyIN – Archaeology Information Network l Heritage Crime Analyst
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social Design Historian. Bartlett School of Architecture PhD. Thesis on commercial office interiors and the capitalist labor process. Primary investigator of Chandigarh Chairs project. Big into (studying) design crime.
Ben Lewis @theuniversalben.bsky.social Telling stories about art within the bigger picture of soc, econ and pol. Last Leonardo, Art Bust, Art Safari – Books. Podcasts. Documentaries www.benlewisprojects.com #arthistory
Hansraj Meena @hansrajmeena.bsky.social Environmental & Socio- Political Activist with Principle of secularism, Equality,Humanity & Justice. A Tribal, Son Of Farmer. Founder of Tribal Army.
•Twitter : https://x.com/HansrajMeena
•Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hansrajmeenaofficial
Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social Writer, early retiree, former associate professor of 18th/19th US history. UIowa PhD/COGS-UE. Former dementia caregiver. Boomer by birth, Gen x by grace of god. Book project on long emancipation and Black resistance in southern Indiana, 1780-1830.
Heghnar Watenpaugh @heghnarw.bsky.social Writer, Art Historian, Professor at University of California Davis
@ucdavis. Guggenheim Fellow
@GuggFellows Art, human rights, cultural heritage, museums, genocide, Middle East, South Caucasus
Victoria Reed @victoria-reed.bsky.social Bettina Burr Chair for Provenance at the MFA, Boston. Art, museums, restitution, and ladies with severed heads.
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social
https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
Parker Blackwell @pblackwell.bsky.social Archaeologist and moss enthusiast
Adam Hyman @adamhy.bsky.social Director of LA Filmforum; documentary worker, native Angeleno, reader of history and music, own too many records
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social covering organized crime @Bellingcat.com. texan up north. views my own.
Bexistorian @bexistorian2.bsky.social PhD, art historian and medievalist, museums, digital humanities, first-gen